114,929
Job cuts with exact counts (a floor)
47
Layoff announcements
51%
Of exact-count cuts attributed to AI by the company itself
13
Announcements reported as a percentage, range or undisclosed, not summed
How AI was linked to the cuts
- AI does the work: 21 of 47
- Cuts fund AI: 13 of 47
- AI hit demand: 1 of 47
- AI cited only in general terms: 12 of 47
"AI does the work" means the source says AI or automation now does, or removes the need for, work the cut roles did. "Cuts fund AI" means the cuts free money or focus for AI. Definitions →
Every entry
| Date | Company | Affected | Industry | What was said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kroger | 3,000 | Retail | Plans to cut about 3,000 corporate jobs (~37% of ~8,200 corporate staff) over three years; CEO Greg Foran's memo cites reducing layers and using technology that boosts efficiency and reduces duplicative work, and Reuters/Fox Business tie the plan to Kroger's expanded AI use announced in September.Attribution: strong · AI does the work | Fox Business (via FOX 5 Atlanta) | |
| HoneyBook | 14% | Technology | Laid off about 14% of its ~255 staff (roughly 30-35 people, mostly in Israel); the company said it 'is undergoing a reorganization process aimed at aligning our structure and workflows with the AI era'.Attribution: explicit | Calcalist (CTech) | |
| FICO (Fair Isaac) | 15% | Finance | Eliminating about 15% of positions (~570 roles by Reuters' estimate) in a restructuring whose SEC 8-K lists flattening management layers, simplifying operations and 'integrating AI-driven product development'.Attribution: explicit | Reuters (via Investing.com) | |
| HubSpot | 660 | Technology | Cutting nearly 660 roles (~7%) while reorganizing product teams around customer outcomes to align with its AI strategy of 'delivering customer results with AI'; CEO Yamini Rangan explicitly said 'This is not driven by AI-related efficiencies'.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | Boston Globe (via Boston.com) | |
| Oracle | Undisclosed | Technology | Began another round of layoffs (size undisclosed) days after raising its FY2026 restructuring budget by $700m; reporting frames the cuts as funding Oracle's AI data-center buildout, following 21,000 AI-linked reductions over the prior year.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | The Register | |
| Booksy | 200 | Technology | Cutting about 20% of staff (~200 roles) to focus on core markets, expand self-service tools and speed up AI adoption; CEO Stefan Batory said realising 'our vision of AI first' in the coming years 'means making difficult decisions now' (translated from Polish).Attribution: explicit · Cuts fund AI | Telepolis | |
| E.W. Scripps | 268 | Media | Laid off 268 people, mostly at local TV stations, as it becomes an 'AI-powered broadcast journalism company'; CEO Adam Symson said 'We're leaning into AI, automation, technology and the centralization of some roles'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TheWrap | |
| Chime | 150 | Finance | Cut about 150 employees (10%) to run with smaller, flatter teams; CEO Chris Britt's memo said 'AI is changing what's possible but requires new skills'.Attribution: explicit | Banking Dive | |
| Visa | 2,600 | Finance | Cut about 2,600 roles (~7%), mainly in technology and product teams; CEO Ryan McInerney's memo said 'AI is also helping to accelerate this evolution and shape the way work gets done at Visa', and a source told CNBC AI was a significant but not sole factor.Attribution: explicit | FStech | |
| Patreon | 93 | Technology | Cut 93 employees (20%); CEO Jack Conte wrote that the company is not cutting because 'AI replaces humans' but that AI 'has fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work' and that this 'does have an impact on how we operate and organize'.Attribution: strong | TechCrunch | |
| Uber | 10% of CS team | Technology | Cut 10% of its Community Operations (customer service) team; a spokesperson said the move was 'to simplify operations, strengthen in-person collaboration and continue to embrace AI', and the VP's memo said the org needed restructuring to layer AI on.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Engadget | |
| Microsoft | 4,800 | Technology | Cut about 4,800 roles (2.1% of workforce, mostly Xbox and commercial sales); Chief People Officer Amy Coleman said the roles are not being replaced by AI but that 'AI is changing how work gets done' and some daily tasks can now be automated.Attribution: explicit | TechCrunch | |
| Elastic | 7% | Technology | CEO Ash Kulkarni announced a ~7% workforce reduction, saying 'advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams' as engineering was consolidated and management layers flattened.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Elastic (CEO blog) | |
| Oracle | 21,000 | Technology | Oracle's fiscal-2026 10-K disclosed headcount fell to ~141,000 from ~162,000 (about 21,000, 13%) and stated that 'the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | SEC filing (Oracle 10-K) | |
| Rackspace Technology | 750 | Technology | Rackspace's SEC filing said the 15% cut de-emphasizes legacy public-cloud service delivery and redeploys resources toward its enterprise AI buildout.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | San Antonio Report | |
| GitLab | 350 | Technology | GitLab cut ~14% of staff while exiting 22 countries and flattening management to fund infrastructure for AI/agentic workloads; CEO Bill Staples said agents 'work at machine scale' and the scale requirement 'didn't exist before'.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Groupon | 400 | Retail | Groupon's SEC filing said the cut of up to 400 employees and contractors relates to its strategy 'to rebuild the Company as an AI-native company', with further automation actions under evaluation.Attribution: explicit | PYMNTS | |
| Intuit | 3,000 | Technology | Intuit cut ~3,000 jobs (~17%) to simplify its structure and divert resources toward embedding AI in its products; CEO Sasan Goodarzi's memo tied the layoffs to helping the company 'focus on AI efforts'.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Acrisure | 2,250 | Finance | CEO Greg Williams told staff the ~2,250-role (11%) phased reduction is driven by how work must evolve as the firm uses AI, data and automation to cut manual work, with client work 'that took days or weeks reduced to minutes'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Business Insurance | |
| Cisco | 4,000 | Technology | Cisco cut nearly 4,000 jobs (~5%) despite record revenue, saying the move shifts its cost structure to fund investment in AI and cybersecurity; CFO described realigning resources around silicon, optics, security and AI.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| General Motors | 600 | Manufacturing | GM laid off ~600 salaried IT staff (over 10% of IT) while, per sources to TechCrunch and CNBC, AI played a role and GM is rehiring for AI-native development, agent/model development and prompt engineering skills.Attribution: strong | TechCrunch | |
| Cloudflare | 1,100 | Technology | Cloudflare cut ~20% of staff alongside record revenue, with CEO Matthew Prince saying AI productivity gains (an internal 'tipping point' last November) made the roles obsolete and that it was 'not a cost-cutting exercise'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TechCrunch | |
| Coinbase | 700 | Finance | CEO Brian Armstrong said 'AI is changing how we work' and the company must leverage AI across every facet of its jobs, restructuring around small AI-enabled teams including one-person teams.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TechCrunch | |
| PayPal | 20% | Finance | New CEO Enrique Lores paired a ~20% workforce reduction over 2-3 years with 'aggressively adopting AI' across processes, targeting $1.5B in savings via AI-enabled processes and an 'AI transformation and simplification' team.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TechCrunch | |
| Freshworks | 500 | Technology | CEO Dennis Woodside told Reuters the 11% cut was driven partly by AI use in product and engineering ('Over half of our code is written by AI') and automation of routine work.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Reuters (via Yahoo Finance) | |
| Vertex | 170 | Technology | Vertex's 8-K said its Value Creation Plan, cutting ~9% of staff, is 'intended to become a more AI-enabled company' and focus investment on growth opportunities.Attribution: explicit | SEC filing (Vertex 8-K) | |
| Meta | 8,000 | Technology | Meta announced ~8,000 cuts (10%) effective May 20 to 'offset the other investments we're making' as it raised AI capex to up to $145B; Zuckerberg's May memo framed the cuts around winning the AI race.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Snap | 1,000 | Technology | CEO Evan Spiegel's memo cutting ~16% of staff said rapid advancements in artificial intelligence let teams reduce repetitive work and let smaller squads drive progress with AI tools.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TechCrunch | |
| Block | 4,000 | Finance | Block is cutting over 4,000 jobs, from more than 10,000 staff to under 6,000, with CEO Jack Dorsey saying 'intelligence tools' paired with smaller, flatter teams fundamentally change what it means to build and run a company.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Fortune | |
| Salesforce | <1000 | Technology | Salesforce cut fewer than 1,000 roles across marketing, product management, data analytics and the Agentforce unit amid its AI push, after Benioff said AI agents let it run support with fewer heads and the company said it no longer needs to backfill support engineer roles.Attribution: strong · AI does the work | Storyboard18 (reporting Business Insider) | |
| Baker McKenzie | ~600 | Other | The law firm is cutting under 10% of its global business services team, with a spokesperson saying the review involves 'rethinking the ways in which we work, including through our use of AI'.Attribution: explicit | Legal Cheek | |
| Dow | 4,500 | Manufacturing | Dow's 'Transform to Outperform' plan cuts about 4,500 roles, with the company saying the program works 'in part by utilizing AI and automation to deliver step change in growth and productivity'; AP/CBS framed the cuts as a shift toward AI and automation.Attribution: strong · AI does the work | CBS News / AP | |
| Amazon | 16,000 | Technology | Amazon cut about 16,000 corporate roles citing fewer layers and less bureaucracy; the cuts follow CEO Andy Jassy's 2025 memo that generative AI would reduce the corporate workforce, and outlets framed the round as part of that AI-driven shrinkage.Attribution: strong · AI does the work | TechCrunch | |
| 15% | Technology | Pinterest said in a regulatory filing it is cutting less than 15% of staff while 'reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and teams' and prioritizing AI-powered products.Attribution: explicit · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | ||
| Angi | 350 | Technology | Angi announced a global reduction of about 350 employees, which it said was made 'in light of AI-driven efficiency improvements' to cut operating expenses.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Business Insider (via Yahoo Finance) | |
| HP | 4000-6000 | Technology | Plans to cut about 4,000-6,000 jobs by the end of fiscal 2028; HP's 8-K ties the plan to driving customer satisfaction, product innovation and productivity 'through artificial intelligence adoption and enablement'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | HP 8-K exhibit (SEC) | |
| Deepwatch | 60-80 | Technology | Laid off dozens of staff (60-80 per an employee; the company gave no number); CEO John DiLullo said the company is 'aligning our organization to accelerate our significant investments in AI and automation'.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | TechCrunch | |
| Amazon | 14,000 | Technology | Amazon cut ~14,000 corporate roles; SVP Beth Galetti's memo said 'this generation of AI is the most transformative technology we've seen since the Internet' and that the company must be organized more leanly with fewer layers.Attribution: explicit | TechCrunch | |
| Chegg | 388 | Education | Chegg cut 388 roles (about 45% of staff), citing the 'new realities of AI' and the drop in Google-referred traffic from AI search overviews.Attribution: explicit · AI hit demand | Fortune | |
| Paycom | 500 | Technology | Laid off about 500 employees; Paycom said the cuts affect only non-client-facing roles 'that have been automated'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | KGOU | |
| 100 | Technology | Cut more than 100 design roles in its cloud unit; CNBC reports the layoffs come as Google accelerates cuts to focus spending on AI infrastructure. Google did not comment.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | CNBC | ||
| Salesforce | 4,000 | Technology | CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce cut customer-support headcount from about 9,000 to about 5,000 because AI agents (Agentforce) now handle roughly half of customer conversations.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | Outlook Business | |
| Microsoft | 9,000 | Technology | Cutting about 9,000 jobs in a second major wave of layoffs as it seeks to control costs while ramping up AI spending, per Bloomberg; Microsoft itself cited removing management layers.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | Bloomberg (via Bloomberg Law) | |
| Business Insider | 21% | Media | Cut 21% of staff; CEO Barbara Peng's memo cites extreme traffic drops and says 'there's a huge opportunity for companies who harness AI first'.Attribution: strong | Nieman Lab | |
| Microsoft | 6,000 | Technology | Cut about 6,000 jobs (3%) to reduce management layers while under pressure to contain costs amid massive spending on AI data centers, per Bloomberg.Attribution: strong · Cuts fund AI | Bloomberg (via Gulf News) | |
| CrowdStrike | 500 | Technology | CrowdStrike cut about 500 roles (5%); CEO George Kurtz told staff 'AI flattens our hiring curve' and the 8-K said the cuts would 'evolve its operations to yield greater efficiencies'.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | SiliconANGLE | |
| Duolingo | 10% | Technology | Cut about 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023; Duolingo told Bloomberg that part of the reason it no longer needed as many people was AI.Attribution: explicit · AI does the work | TechCrunch |
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